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Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
The acknowledgements reveal the author's involvement with a rich mix of cultural activities. The opening poem, This is my house (two stanzas of seven short lines), was commissioned for a documentary film of the same...
Textual Production Penelope Fitzgerald
PF published her fourth novel, Human Voices, which draws on her years working at the BBC in London during the Second World War.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Harvey-Wood, Harriet. “Penelope Fitzgerald”. The Guardian, p. 22.
22
Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
The book was entitled Dr. Gully's Story in the USA.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Between portraying one of the leading characters in Six Criminal Women and composing the book (which she called a novel), EJ had written about...
Textual Production E. M. Delafield
The play (a dramatised version of The Way Things Are) ran for almost six months in London and was also produced in New York.
Delafield, E. M., and Nicola Beauman. The Diary of a Provincial Lady. Virago.
prelims
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne.
119
BBC radio aired a version in September 1931.
Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann.
151
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
One Goodnight, the first of MD 's two radio plays about the Irish writers Edith Somerville and Martin Ross , aired on the BBC .
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Textual Production Andrea Levy
AL has had her short fiction read on BBC Radio 4 .
Hickman, Christie. “Andrea Levy: Under the skin of history”. The Independent.
Her story Deborah appeared in volume 7 of the British Council 's New Writing, 1998, alongside far more established names. Loose Change...
Textual Production Buchi Emecheta
The work was published in adapted form as a novel in 1986 in Macmillan 's Pacesetters Series. BE has written other plays produced on television, including Tanya, a Black Woman, for the BBC
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW published Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time, a collection of six essays originally broadcast on radio earlier that year as the annual BBC Reith lectures.
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research.
194: 286
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
In later years EH was a frequent member, in sessions of six weeks at a time, of the panel on the BBC 's The Critics, for which on 20 August 1954 she reviewed Eudora Welty
Textual Production Elizabeth von Arnim
A month-long holiday that EA took near Rapallo with her friends Maud Ritchie and Mary Mallet provided the inspiration for this book. It has seen many theatrical and movie versions. Campbell Kane rewrote it as...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ wrote a play as a vehicle for her friend Baliol Holloway , in which he collaborated with her, supplying the theatrical expertise and especially his sense of stage timing. He played Charles II in...
Textual Production Sybille Bedford
Into this work, SB wrote later, she threw herself with a compound of conviction and self-doubt.
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin.
ix
Its sources were, besides the different narrating talents of her parents, the indiscretions of tutors and servants, the...
Textual Production E. M. Delafield
EMD also had several plays produced by BBC radio .
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne.
118
Textual Production Deborah Moggach
DM has written a number of TV screenplays, both from her own prose and that of others, and in the form of original scripts, from which several of her novels were expanded. She has adapted...
Textual Production Irene Handl
These were IR's only books. She also wrote for radio and contributed the introduction to The Listening Corner Storybook, published for the BBC in 1985.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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1940: Ivy Benson, an accomplished and later famous...

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1940

Ivy Benson , an accomplished and later famous musician trained at the Leeds College of Art , established the group Ivy Benson and Her All-Girl Band.

7 January 1940: BBC radio's Forces Programme began....

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7 January 1940

BBC radio's Forces Programme began.

19 May 1940: Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio...

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19 May 1940

Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio broadcast as wartime coalition Prime Minister.

18 June 1940: Winston Churchill made his famous This was...

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18 June 1940

Winston Churchill made his famous This was their finest hour . . . broadcast on BBC radio.

13 October 1940: Princess Elizabeth made her first BBC radio...

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13 October 1940

Princess Elizabeth made her first BBC radio broadcast, directed to children of the Empire.

15 October 1940: A delayed-action bomb exploded in the BBC's...

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15 October 1940

A delayed-action bomb exploded in the BBC 's Broadcasting House during the 9 o'clock news, killing seven staff-members.

8 December 1940: A land mine caused severe damage to BBC's...

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8 December 1940

A land mine caused severe damage to BBC 's Broadcasting House.

1 January 1941: BBC radio's Brains' Trust (at first called...

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1 January 1941

BBC radio's Brains' Trust (at first called Any Questions) began.

10 May 1941: During the final, most destructive raid of...

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10 May 1941

During the final, most destructive raid of the Blitz, Queen's Hall was completely demolished by bombs and the BBC studios at Maida Vale received a direct hit from a high-explosive bomb.

22 June 1941: Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (named...

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22 June 1941

Hitler 's invasion of the Soviet Union (named Operation Barbarossa, and in contravention of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 23 August 1939) began with a surprise attack at dawn which destroyed a thousand Soviet planes...

9 November 1941: The BBC forces' programme Sincerely Yours,...

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9 November 1941

The BBC forces' programme Sincerely Yours, Vera Lynn began broadcasting.

22 March 1942: The BBC transmitted its first daily news...

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22 March 1942

The BBC transmitted its first daily news bulletin in Morse code (in English and various other languages) to Resistance troops in Europe.

2 November 1942: The BBC's French service for Canada bega...

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2 November 1942

The BBC 's French service for Canada began.

3 April 1943: The BBC's programme Saturday Night Theatre...

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3 April 1943

The BBC 's programme Saturday Night Theatre began.

6 June 1944: On this day, known as D-Day (and postponed...

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6 June 1944

On this day, known as D-Day (and postponed a day because of bad weather), 155,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy. The airborne armada, nine planes wide and stretching for 200 miles, carried British, Canadian...

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